Category: Sad

If I’m trapped in the desert, I want to be able to charge my iPod shuffle.

The couple that took the photos died in the disaster (along with 230,000 other folks), but their camera was found and some haunting photos were recovered from it.

For the ultimate in laziness, just plug your city/state into this site, and it’ll tell you if need a jacket or not.

Or you could just look outside.

If you can make it down to San Francisco in the next couple days, you can see the infamous Virgin Mary Grilled Cheese at the Ripley’s Believe It or Not Museum at Fisherman’s Wharf. Just watch out for the bodyguards that brought it there. Full Story.

Man, these guys are a bunch of idiots.

“My mother was computer illiterate. She hated a computer,” Chianumba (the Daughter) said. “My mother wouldn’t know how to turn on a computer.”

Chianumba said she faxed a copy of her mother’s death certificate to record company officials several days before the lawsuit was filed, in response to a letter from the company regarding the upcoming legal filing.

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“Our evidence gathering and our subsequent legal actions all were initiated weeks and even months ago,” said RIAA spokesman Jonathan Lamy. “We will now, of course, obviously dismiss this case.”

Well cripes, I should certainly hope the case would be dismissed. What kind of research are these idiots doing? Obviously the RIAA has far too much money on their hands if they can pay folks to track down and sue the pants off these non-existent crooks.

Over a quarter of Black Americans believe the US government created the HIV virus, and 1 in 8 believe that it is being spread by the CIA, according to a study released by Rand Corporation and the University of Oregon. Full story. Thanks Neil for the link.

There are two sad things about this. One, that they’d actually arrest somebody for this and two, that the guy’s game data was so important that he felt the need to have the woman arrested. Full story, via Aaron.

It’s amazing to me the idiots who seem to think that a children’s TV program that casually mentions something remotely related to lesbianism is somehow going to turn all children into gays. This is your tax dollars at work here, folks.

The nation’s new education secretary denounced PBS on Tuesday for spending public money on a cartoon with lesbian characters, saying many parents would not want children exposed to such lifestyles.

The not-yet-aired episode of “Postcards From Buster” shows the title character, an animated bunny named Buster, on a trip to Vermont — a state known for recognizing same-sex civil unions. The episode features two lesbian couples, although the focus is on farm life and maple sugaring.

The episode information was removed from PBS’s site, but it still remains in the Google Cache. Quoting the page:

While there, we visited Emma, David, and James, who live with their two moms, Karen and Gillian. Karen and my mom used to work at the same newspaper together.

Oh yeah, that’ll make all children turn gay. Idiots.

Criminy, if the United Church of Christ can accept gay characters with open arms, why can’t our government?

Links via a variety of places, but mostly Jeff Jarvis.

If you can’t make your site secure, just put an SSL icon at the bottom of the page’s design, like these guys did. Thanks NTK.